Which book ending made you cry?

[MiniMandaRuth]

We've had movies and songs but now, which book ending made you cry?

For me, it was Watership down. Damn, that got me. I was crying every time I thought of that for a few days afterwards. Also, Enders Game. It wasn't really a sad ending, but I still cried.

And my own books. Once I finished the last one, I cried really hard. :cry:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. I sobbed and sobbed at the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Someone died who is one of my favorite literary characters ever and it just effected me in a weird way.
Duckie

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. Agree. That got me, too.

My friends and I publicly mourned.

[graywarrior]

57. Same here. I'm still sobbing and I read it last year.

[BrightBlueDot]

3. The Poisonwood Bible

It wasn't exactly the end, but near the end, when Adah owns the legacy she inherited from her asshole father. It reminded me of my own responsibility, as an American, for every evil thing our country does. So sad. But freedom comes in responsibility.

[MiniMandaRuth]

4. Sounds like a good book...

And welcome to DU!

[BrightBlueDot]

7. Thanks! I bet you would love the book. I've

lurked enough to know you're a teenager, (if I remember right). Of the five main characters, three are teenage girls. HUGE lessons about America's impact on the world. Fabulous book.

[MiniMandaRuth]

8. Yeah. I'm almost fifteen.

My teacher actually recommended the book to me. I just never got around to reading it...

Oh well, now I know it really IS a good book.

[Flaxbee]

45. ...and the scene where they're all mourning b/c of what the

snake did (I'm trying not to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it) - when all the women gather around. Oh man I couldn't stop crying there, either. Again, not near the end, but the end of a certain phase of that book.

I loved that book. Some sad parts, no doubt, but very worth reading.

[BrightBlueDot]

47. Yes! When did you read it?

I read it not long after it was released. Now, however, Rachel reminds me of Emperor Bunnypants so much that I can barely stand to re-read it! Do you see what I mean?

[RetroLounge]

53. Ooh, that book was one I got this weekend

Now what box was that in?

RL

[buddhamama]

5. there have been a few...

James Baldwin's "Another Country" is one i remember. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is another.

[MiniMandaRuth]

6. To Kill A Mockinbird...

Damn... that was just... well... yeah.

[WilliamPitt]

17. Ditto

That and:

"Stand up, Jean-Louise. Your father's passin'."

[Jade Fox]

9. Cold Mountain....

If ever a couple deserved a "happily ever after" it was the lovers in that book.

[blue neen]

11. That's the one I was going to say.

I just sobbed. It was so sad. They did that scene beautifully in the movie version.

[Maine-ah]

18. never read the book

sobbed my ass off at the end of the movie.

[blue neen]

25. I read the book first. When I watched the movie, I knew what was coming,

so I was crying before the scene ever started. It was almost agony.

[idgiehkt]

32. the book is a masterpiece

Kind of like future Faulkner for lit classes. I boycotted the movie on account of the trailer and because they casted Nicole Kidman who I can't stand in hardly anything. The book is just stunningly well written and researched it should be up there with something like Main Street or The Grapes of Wrath, etc.

and I was going to vote on Cold Mountain here too.

[Aristus]

10. Non-fiction: Stephen Ambrose's description of Meriwether Lewis's

suicide in "Undaunted Courage", made me cry like a little girl.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Koriel on the Moon - Inherit the Stars

by James P. Hogan.

That's all I'll say.

[TimeChaser]

13. Um... a lot...

Return of the King made me cry. And the Last Herald-Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey makes me cry every time. Several of the Dragonriders of Pern books have made me cry. And HP Order of the Phoenix. Um... and that's not even getting to manga that makes me cry >_>

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. A Tale of Two Cities.

:cry: :cry: :cry:


I think I cried at the end of the last three Harry Potter books. :cry:

I was misty eyed at the end of Lord of the Rings.

[anarch]

15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

It was so funny, I was totally sad when it was over. Then I went back and re-read some of the parts that made me laugh until I cried.

[Bzzzz]

16. Bridges of Madison County...

:cry:

[mtnester]

48. That one for me too, and Mitch Albon's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven

and Jean Hegland's "Into the Forest"

[BarenakedLady]

19. Most recently...

Marley and Me. I'm a sucker for animals.

[lildreamer316]

22. The most famous example of that (sorta)

is The Velveteen Rabbit.

Oh, I cried, even though it was not that sad,really.

I Know!! Old Yeller. I hated that with a passion.

[Sugar Smack]

39. OMG, my best friend read that,

And could NOT stop crying afterward.

[Flaxbee]

46. then you might like "Sight Hound" by Pam Houston

good animal book, but you'll cry at the end, even though you know what's coming and it's not really sad in a devastating way, just sad. But good.

[khashka]

20. A few....

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Jack by Connie Willis (a short story but it makes me sob like a baby)

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (started crying about halfway through and never stopped)

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince

Khash.

[WannaBePassingFair]

21. its corny but...

I cried at the end of "Love Story"

[BlackVelvetElvis]

23. Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Best known by its more popular title The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Nothing like any movie you've seen based on the book. It doesn't have a happy ending. It would make a great film in its original form.

[Arkham House]

24. Oh yeah..."Watership Down" gets my tear ducts working...

...I'm utterly unable to resist it...:-)...also: "The Return of the King" gets me going...and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"...

[Left Is Write]

26. The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now. Where The Red Fern Grows.

[fizzgig]

27. i always bawl at the end of where the red fern grows

also mists of avalon and return of the king, just to name a few

[Gormy Cuss]

28. Black Beauty.

A children's book? The hell I say.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. The Yearling.........

An old fiction book by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings......

It's a coming of age story about a young boy.......and his deer.

The ending always makes me break down....

I give it the highest recommendation........

[cobalt1999]

50. Good choice.

I recently finished reading it as a bedtime book to my daughters (both were in tears at the end).

[begin_within]

56. Great movie too (the 1946 version, with Gregory Peck.

I still don't understand why, though

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Why didn't they just fence in the deer in its own enclosure?

[Homer Wells]

30. Grapes of Wrath

n/t

[LeftyMom]

33. me too nt

[LizW]

31. The Kite Runner. I sobbed.

Oh, and another one I almost forgot: The Lovely Bones. That was a beautifully written book and I cried my eyes out.

[LeftyMom]

34. The Prince of Tides

To be honest, most of that book makes me cry.

[XemaSab]

35. Where the Red Fern Grows and The Amber Spyglass

are the only two books I have BAWLED during.

On edit: Specifically the scene where Lyra betrays her closest friend. I didn't see that coming AT ALL.

[Guy Fawkes]

36. I can honestly say...

the only book that has ever made me cry was "Where the Red Fern Grows." I may not care much for people- but I'm incredibly large hearted when it comes to animals.

[otherlander]

54. I was going to say Amber Spyglass, too.

When they realize that the knife is creating the spectors and they can only leave one gate open, but it has to be the one from the land of the dead, and not between Will and Lyra's worlds. And Will goes off with Mary knowing he'll never see Lyra or his mother again...

[zonkers]

59. Oh my god, my teacher used to read this to our class and we'd

have to stop because she'd start crying. Took her a whole year to finish it.

[Der Blaue Engel]

37. I doubt anyone else will know this one: Darkness, I

It's a dark fantasy by Tanith Lee, the last book in an unfinished series called "The Blood Opera," I believe. I sobbed so hard at the end of that book that I thought I was losing my mind. I sobbed for hours. I don't know why it hit me so hard; it wasn't about a death, just the failure of two characters to get together. It was like I had gotten so deeply into the story that I felt like it was happening to me. (I had just started taking antidepressants, so it may have been the sudden shift in my neurochemistry.)

And then of course Where The Red Fern Grows, and other animal stories. I can't handle animal tragedy.

When you say your own books, does that mean you write? I cry when I finish my novels, myself. If you're writing books at 15, that's quite an accomplishment. (And it will bring you lots of tears along the way, if you pursue it as a career. But if you have the bug, it's just something you have to do, and no amount of tears will stop you, because there's nothing else like it.)

[Broken_Hero]

38. A book I read a long time ago...

Good Night, Mr. Tom. I read this in the 7th grade...it got me.

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-Tom-Michelle-Magorian/dp/006440174X

[haf216]

40. Most of the ones listed here

and about 100 more. I'm a sucker for that kinda of thing! But the most resent one would be The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Dominque.

[datasuspect]

41. "a discourse on the method of properly conducting the reason and finding

truth in the sciences" rene descartes

a real tear jerker

[youthere]

42. "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

by Robert Newton Peck. I read it when I was about 12 and sobbed like my heart would break. I've never forgotten the last line:

"That was all I could say, so I just turned and walked away from a patch of grassless land."

[bandb 88]

43. to

kill a mocking bird and the outsiders

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

44. Charlotte's Web!

Well, it's not the ending, but the death scene in Charlotte's Web is heart-wrenching.

True story: E.B. White was contracted to narrate the book for "Books on Tape" late in his life. The producer relates that, when he came to the death scene, it took White 17 takes to get through the passage, because he would break down in tears every time.

[jobycom]

49. The Color Purple, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Les Miserable (unabridged)

[mzteris]

51. The first book I remember crying over

The Yearling.

I sobbed for hours and my brother made fun of me.

[Lilith Velkor]

52. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

[quiet.american]

55. "1984." The last sentence is the most depressing I've ever read. n/t

[MassLiberal]

58. Pride & Prejudice

happy crying :-)

[WindRavenX]

60. The Amber Spyglass- book III of the His Dark Materials Trilogy

OMFG :cry: :cry:

[derby378]

61. Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began

The last page of that book. If you've read it, you understand.

God bless Artie Spiegelman.